Drevyev

Here is a picture of our house in Lviv. Our dwelling was the empty apartments of residents who were out of town while we were in Lviv. We were treated very hospitably by the director of the Emmaus Center (at whose place we stayed for the first week), and Jeffrey, the UCU go-to man, my initial contact with UCU, and the one to help organize our work there.

The tree in front is a white mulberry tree that went way up to our second storey window. The kids' strategy was to shake the tree as hard as they could, then scramble after the berries while they were still moving, and thus still distinguishable from the ones that were already on the ground. This process of eating off the ground made old ladies shudder. Even Jeffrey advised against it, unless, as he put it, we saw it as safer than the girls trying to grab the berries out of a second-storey window. So we just told the girls not to do it while there were any old ladies around.